Etta James is widely regarded as one of the finest female blues, R&B and soul singers of the modern era

Etta James is widely regarded as one of the finest female blues, R&B and soul singers of the modern era, second only in some eyes to Aretha Franklin – Atlantic’s Jerry Wexler called her ‘the greatest of all modern blues singers’. After a chequered early life, she was discovered in Los Angeles singing with a vocal group at the age of 16 by Johnny Otis, who signed her to Modern, and she scored an R&B No. 1 in 1955 with her debut recording ‘The Wallflower (Roll With Me Henry)’, a re-working of Hank Ballard’s ‘Work With Me, Annie’, following it up with another Top 10 R&B hit ‘Good Rockin’ Daddy’. After recording briefly for Modern subsidiary Kent, she signed to the Chess label, and began recording material that combined the intensity of R&B with the accessibility of pop and the polish of jazz, switching to the Chess sister label Argo in 1960, and hitting the pop and R&B charts with more than fifteen records between 1960 and ’62, including Top 5 successes like ‘All I Could Do Was Cry’, ‘My Dearest Darling’, ‘At Last’, ‘Trust In Me’ and ‘Something’s Got A Hold On Me’, before aspects of her life began to unravel in subsequent years. This great-value 52-track 2-CD set comprises all her A & B sides during those first important years of her career, plus a bonus album version of ‘Dance With Me Henry’, so it’s a comprehensive overview of her early work.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• The Wallflower(Roll With Me Henry)
• Hold Me Squeeze Me
• Hey Henry
• Be Mine
• Good Rockin Daddy
• Crazy Feeling
• W-O-M-A-N
• That’s All
• Number One
• I’m A Fool
• Tears Of Joy
• Shortin’ Bread Rock
• Tough Lover
• Fools We Mortals Be
• Good Lookin’
• Then I’ll Care
• Market Place
• The Pick-Up
• By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
• Come What May
• Sunshine Of Love
• Baby, Baby Every Night
• I Hope You’re Satisfied
• If It Ain’t One Thing
• How Big A Fool
• If I Can’t Have You

Disc 2:

• My Heart Cries
• Spoonful
• It’s A Crying Shame
• All I Could Do Was Cry
• Boy Of My Dreams
• My Dearest Darling
• Tough Mary
• At Last
• I Just Want To Make Love To You
• Trust In Me
• Anything To Say You’re Mine
• Fool That I Am
• Dream
• Don’t Cry, Baby
• Sunday Kind Of Love
• It’s Too Soon To Know
• Seven Day Fool
• Something’s Got A Hold On Me
• Waiting For Charlie To Come Home
• Stop The Wedding
• Street Of Tears
• Next Door To The Blues
• Fools Rush In
• How Do You Speak To An Angel
• Would It Make Any Difference To You
• Dance With Me Henry

Additional Details

Label:Acrobat

Genre:Blues

Language:English

Run Time:140 mins

Region:0

Release Date:08/04/17

UPC:824046320423